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John Fowles Quotes

Type: Novelist Quotes Category: English Novelist Quotes Date of Birth: March 31, 1926 Date of Death: November 5, 2005 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: John Fowles Related Authors: Aldous Huxley E. M. Forster Samuel Richardson Charles Dickens Henry Fielding Thomas Hardy Mark Haddon William Makepeace Thackeray

An answer is always a form of death. John Fowles Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man. John Fowles Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. John Fowles I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me. John Fowles In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters. John Fowles In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me. John Fowles Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them. John Fowles Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. John Fowles Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be. John Fowles That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects. John Fowles The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself. John Fowles The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time. John Fowles There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world. John Fowles There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid. John Fowles There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be. John Fowles We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. John Fowles

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